Alkali-metal compound of a suboxide of titanium and derivatives therefrom



Patented Oct. 151, 1929 UNITED STATES room) VON nrcnowsxm or GLENDALE, cnnn'omua ALKALI-METAL COMPOUND A No Drawing.

This discovery relates in particular to'the alkali metal compounds of titanium in which the titanium exists in the form of a sub-oxide Ti O .and to the technically valuable compounds which may be derived therefrom.

I In this invention I make no process of manufacture of these compounds as that has already been described in my Patent No. 1,472,403,.issued October 30, 1923, relating to the synthetic production of alkali metal cyanides and it is while carrying out the process of that patent that the new and novel compounds herein described are formed.

As an example of the formation of these various compounds I will cite a number-of examples all of which and many others come under the scope of my already filed pat-- ent.

Example N o. 1

If titanium cyanonitride, titanium carbide and sodium carbonate be heated with stirring for forty five minutes at a temperature of 800 C. in an indifferent atmosphere and in the proportions indicated by the following equation there results both sodium 0 anide and a new titanium com ound which have named sodium ortho trititanite or Na' Ti O, but which can also be represented thus I 2Na O-Ti Q It is formed as indicated: Ti C N -l-2TiC-l-12Na CO 4Na Ti O, 8NaCN 8C0. This new compound has a bluish color occurs in the form of a dense owder. It is insoluble in hot or cold water at undergoes immediate hydrolysis, another new compound sodium meta hexatitanite being formed:

Na O'2Ti O It is a dense powder of a lavender color which upon heatin is converted throu h oxidation into sodlum hexatitanate Na i O the corresponding potassium salt of which is well known in its hyclaim to the pulverizin and I sunoxmn or Truman Ann nnmva'rrvns rnnanrnom Application filed June 4, 192;. Serial a 643,440.

drated form. This sodium salt is a dense beautiful white powder and prepared in this way is in an extremely fine state of subdivision which preeminently suits it;for use as 'a white pigment or for any other use where a white body possessing its properties is required. It melts at about 1100 C. to a clear liquid which upon cooling crystallizes in the form of glistening lon needles. It is insoluble in the common co d dilute acids but dissolves quite readily in hot B. sulphuric acid. The solution so obtained upon cooling and diluting and then boiling throws down the titanium in the form of the white dioxide.

Example N o. 2

If the reaction between titanium cyanonitride, titanium carbide and sodium carbonate takes place at a hi hertemperature the reaction follows a di erent course. At 1000 C. and with fifteen minutes heating the reaction goes thus:

and sodium meta tri-titanite Na Ti O, or Na,,O-Ti O is formed. This occurs in the form of a dense bluish violet cake which upon does not dissolve in water but is hydrolyze by the same to the already described sodium hexa-titanite. Thereaction being:

Ewample No. 8 If titanium nitride be heated with barium carbide and soda to 1000 C. for twenty min-' Na,Ti,O' GNaCN BaO.

i If the so resulting reaction mass be cooled and then treated with fairly strong sulphuric acid pure hydrocyanic acid is evolved and may be recovered while the residue from the acid treatment will be found to consist of a molecular mixture of barium sulphate and sodium hexa-titanite, which may then be washed with water and dried or roasted in an oxidizing atmosphere. This will result in a beautiful heavy white material most suitable as a pigment.

I c alm:

1. As new chemical compounds the alkali metacpmpounds of the sub-oxide of titanium 2. As new chemical compounds the alkali metal compounds of the sub-oxide of titanium (Ti O comprising a dense colored substance insoluble in water.

3. The ort-ho compounds derived from the I alkali metal compounds of the sub-oxide of titanium (T1 0 4. As a new chemical compound sodium ortho tri-titanite 2Na5O-Ti O a dense bluish colored powder insoluble in but hydrolyzed by water.

FOORD VON BICHOWSKY. 

